Things I learnt during my own therapy and later as a counsellor that you may find useful.
- the therapy that changed my life
- nothing to believe except my own experience
- why did I need therapy?
- as I suspect most people do
- primals and group process
- what is happening when 'nothing' is happening
- what happened after therapy?
- there were some surprises
- what happened to Centrepoint?
- where I did most of it
- self-therapy
- what you can and can't do on your own
- infantile trauma
- very different from what adults think it is
- listening beats labelling
- theory sometimes gets things badly wrong
- clinicians and psychologists
- know who's who as they are very different
- mental illness or behavioural disorder?
- the treatment is totally different
- choosing a counsellor or therapist
- what I would look for
- what is madness?
- craziness can be stranger than we think
- you have an unconscious mind
- and most people treat theirs very badly
- reality is all in your head!
- and it might be ruining your life
- loop breakers
- what you can do for people in crisis
- clean up your language
- dirty words are OK but use them correctly
- truth and lies
- there is less difference than we think
- compulsion blowout
- behaviour that you don't need gone for ever
- the witch doctor's headache cure
- for the ones that aren't due to illness
- an affirmation that really helps
- unlike most of them
- declining an invitation to spiritual growth
- I wanted more than they had to offer
- a poem by Tommy Mitchell I like
- puts therapy in a nutshell
- be careful what you tell children
- they see things very differently
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